Hanuman Chalisa is Goswami Tulsidas's hymn of forty verses to Hanuman, composed in Awadhi — the spoken language of his listeners rather than Sanskrit, which is much of why it became the most widely recited devotional text in northern India. Its name comes from chālīs, "forty": two opening dohas asking the Guru's blessing and confessing the poet's own dullness of mind, then the forty chaupais that praise Hanuman and retell his deeds in the Ramayana — leaping the ocean, burning Lanka, carrying the mountain of herbs — and a closing doha asking him to dwell in the heart along with Rama, Lakshmana and Sita.
The full recitation, in the order it is chanted. Pick a section to begin.
43 passages in all